“First, there is the fall, then comes recovery from the fall. Both are the mercy of God.” Julian of Norwich, a Mystic in the 1300s Peering out the window of…
Her Odyssey 2022 Maps & Plans
15,000 miles and counting! Since November 2015, the Her Odyssey explorers, Bethany ‘Fidgit’ Hughes and Lauren ‘Neon’ Reed, have traversed 15,000 of the 20,000 mile proposed human powered journey to…
Her Odyssey Back in Motion on the Great Divide Trail
On August 14th, the Her Odyssey women resumed the travel component of our endeavor. On August 9th, Canada opened their borders to vaccinated and qualified US citizens, despite the US not…
‘Share Your Story’ Shirt Sales: pay it forward recipients ‘WeGotNext’
Her Odyssey is powered by a community of curious and forward-thinking people invested in seeing the world through different lenses. The ‘Share Your Story’ Campaign is a fundraising effort for…
Progress Map, Podcast Release, and Share Your Story T-Shirt Campaign
In late March 2020 the Her Odyssey team were in Aguascalientes, Mexico along the bikepacking portion of the human powered endeavor to cross the Americas when the news and social…
Julia de Plaza Patria, Aguascalientes
*Written by Fidgit* We finally arrived to Aguascalientes. Neon went in to get us a hotel room while I sat on the edge of the plaza with our bikes. Both…
Jorche de los Bicis
*Written by Fidgit* Our bikes were as beat up as we were rolling in to Aguascalientes. Neon had broken her shifter when she flipped into a highway. My tires were…
Abuela en la Parroquia de Santo Domingo
*Written by Fidgit* She was what made me acknowledge that we needed to go home. It wasn’t quite time yet but this was the moment I acknowledged that it would…
Forgotten Pueblos on the Camino Libre
*Written by Fidgit* Darkness takes hold more quickly in the mountains and we had been pedaling slowly and ascending steeply into the Sierra Madre Occidental Range since disembarking from the…
